Everything you can do with Better Trove Tools

First-time setup

1. Download the installer from the home page or the GitHub releases page and run it.
2. Launch the app - it automatically detects your Glyph and Steam Trove installations (Live, PTS, and any custom installs).
3. That's it. The dashboard loads with live data and the app checks for updates in the background.

Finding your way around

• Use the left sidebar to switch between Home, Mod Manager, Modder Tools, Gems & Builds, Calculators, Codexes, Settings, and About. Hit the ☰ burger to collapse it for more room.
• The server clock near the bottom shows live Trove server time - click it for world clocks and a time converter.
• Press Ctrl + K anywhere to open Quick Open and jump straight to any tool or action.

What you can do here

• Daily & weekly buffs - see today's active bonuses at a glance. Click any buff card to open a schedule of what's coming the rest of the week.
• Merchants - track Luxion, Corruxion, and Fluxion, plus biome-based merchant schedules. Cards show whether they're active now or exactly how long until they arrive. Click a merchant for its upcoming schedule.
• Community content - carousels of current YouTube, Twitch, and BiliBili creators. Click a card to open the stream or video.
• Official news - the live Trove news feed with category filtering and a collapse control.
• Events - active Trovesaurus community events with live countdown timers.

How to use it

• Click the server clock in the sidebar to open the time panel.
• Compare Trove server time side-by-side with major world timezones.
• Pick a date/time, choose its timezone, and the converter shows the equivalent Trove time.
• Copy a ready-to-paste Discord timestamp in any format (short time, relative, full date, etc.) to share event times that auto-adjust to each viewer's local zone.

How to use it

1. Select your class and subclass.
2. Enter your target Light stat.
3. Toggle the buffs you actually run (food, Berserker Battler, and so on).
4. Press Calculate.

The engine lists the top builds. The Best row's "Layout" column tells you exactly how many boosts to put on Physical/Magic Damage vs. Critical Damage for the highest output - click the layout to copy it.

How to use it

1. Click any node to activate it - just like in-game, you must own the connecting nodes first.
2. Double-click a major node to auto-fill the entire branch leading up to it.
3. Pan by dragging the empty background and zoom with the scroll wheel to navigate the map.
4. The summary panel aggregates every stat, ability, and obtainable item you've unlocked and enforces the node limit.

How to use it

1. Use Generate Gem to create a base gem (Stellar, Fire, Empowered, …) - it lands in your inventory.
2. Select the gem, then Level Up to simulate leveling it to 25 or 30.
3. Flare - move a boost ("pearl") onto a chosen stat.
4. Spark - reroll a stat into a different one.
5. Augment - apply augmentation outcomes to push stats further.
6. Drag and drop gems into the equipped slots - the app totals your Power Rank and stats, automatically applying the 10% Primordial Dragon buffs.

How to use it

• Pick the game installation to read from at the top of the codex.
• Switch tabs between the eight catalogs; each loads on demand and is cached for instant reopening.
• Use the search box and filters to narrow by category, stat, source, and more.
• Hit Refresh after a game update to rebuild a codex from the latest files.

Browsing & installing

• Open the Trovesaurus tab, search any mod, or filter by category.
• Click install on a mod - it downloads and drops into the correct game folder automatically.
• When an installed mod gets a website update, an update icon appears so you can refresh it in place.
• Preview images and links to the mod's Trovesaurus and author pages are right there in the app.

Managing what's installed

• The My Mods tab lists everything installed for the selected Trove install.
• Toggle mods on and off without deleting them; update or remove with a click.
• Use Fix Names to rename local files to match their internal titles.
• Search, filter, and quick-jump through long lists.

Build a mod step by step

1. In the Projects tab, create a project and point it at a folder. Each project keeps versioned workspaces (e.g. v1.0).
2. Drop your edited game files into the version folder.
3. Click Auto-Structure - the app scans Trove's file dictionary, figures out where each file belongs, and arranges the folder hierarchy for you.
4. Click Place Overrides to copy the structured files into the live game so you can Test in Game instantly. Click Remove Overrides when you're done.
5. Fill in the mod title, author, and a preview image.
6. Click Compile to package everything into a .tmod, ready to upload to Trovesaurus.

How to use it

1. Pick a game install and load its archive tree - the app reads the .tfi indexes and .tfa archives directly.
2. Browse the game's internal UI, textures, sounds, and blueprints in a familiar tree view.
3. Right-click any file to extract it to your computer.
4. Select a folder and use the mass-extraction tools to pull out everything at once.

How to track updates

1. In the Update Tracker panel, choose a tracking folder where extracted files will be saved.
2. Click Build Baseline Cache. The app fingerprints the game's tens of thousands of files into a "snapshot." This takes a moment, but only needs doing once.
3. Wait for Trove to release a patch.
4. Come back and click Scan for Updates.

What you can change

• Custom Trove directories - add Live, PTS, or any custom install so every tool can target it.
• Accent color & app font - restyle the whole interface.
• Language - switch between 9 supported languages at any time.
• Home content toggles - hide community content or news for a quieter dashboard.

FPS cap patcher

Set the Trove client's frame-rate cap per installation - choose from 60, 90, 120, 144, 165, 180, 200, 240, 360, 540 FPS, or uncapped. The app edits the cap directly in the executable, keeps an automatic pristine backup, and flags an install for repair if the value can't be located.